What to Do When Your Cat Is Addicted to Your Phone
If your cat is addicted to your phone, begin with a calm assessment. Does the cat own a phone? Have a password? Pay for data? Has the cat ever said, “I’ll come to bed in a minute,” then watched 43…
How to Dress Up Like Your Pet for Halloween
If you want to dress up like your pet for Halloween, generic ears and three whiskers will not do. You are dressing as your cat or dog: the one with the crooked ear, single white sock, and chest patch shaped…
Best GPS Dog Collar and GPS Dog Trackers
The best gps dog collar is not just the one with the most dramatic map screen. It is the one that fits your dog, stays charged, alerts you quickly, survives the way your dog actually lives, and gives you a…
Best Cat GPS Trackers and Cat Tracking Collars
The best cat gps tracker is the one that survives two judgments at once: the technology has to match the way your cat disappears, and the collar setup has to make sense on an animal who can turn one dangling…
An Apple AirTag Pet Tracker Seemed Perfect Until Her Cat Went Outside
Nina told me the AirTag idea started in the apartment, which is exactly where an AirTag can make a person feel like she has finally outsmarted a cat. This is always a risky emotional position. Her cat Miso had always…
I Bought Longer Leashes and Learned I Needed a Cat Tracker, Not a Cat Tracker App
Cali had moved maybe two inches in ten minutes, which for her was apparently a rich and challenging travel day. She was in a sunny patch of grass near my building with her paws tucked under her calico body, studying…
My Friend’s Papillon Taught Me Why a GPS Dog Collar for Small Dogs Needs a Walk Test
This is a story about picking a GPS dog collar for Pippi, a very small dog. The first thing you should know about Pippi is that she was named after Pippi Longstocking, and she has accepted the assignment with her…
How my lost dog GPS Tracker saved the day when my dog Batman got lost on vacation
The moment I knew I had become a person who believes in a lost dog gps tracker, I was standing in the doorway of a Hudson Valley Airbnb holding Batman’s leash and staring at a room where Batman was not.…
Can You Track a Microchipped Cat or Dog? Chip vs GPS Reality
If you are trying to track a microchipped cat from your phone, the answer is no. That is not a technicality. A microchip is not a live map, not a gps chip for cats, and not a tiny broadcast device…
Garmin Dog Tracker Review
A garmin dog tracker is not one single kind of tool anymore. Garmin still belongs in the world of hunting dogs, rural land, brush, water, maps, and serious dog-handling gear. But Alpha LTE also gives Garmin a phone-based path: LTE…